The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-02
FEMALE TIPPLERS.
Women Who Look Upon Wine When
1t Is Red.
Prom he Cincinnati Enquirer.


women is greatly on the increase.
There are to-day hundreds of places, from
cozy and quiet retreats TO the crowded hill
tops and thronged music halls, where women
can assemble and hubble
In the latter places the women are gen
orally accompanied by male escorts, and,
though at first they begin with ginger ale,
seltzer or soda water, they soon learn the
taste of something stronger, and many
gradually become confirmed devoteeS to the
liquor habit.
Twenty years ago it was rare thing to
see women under the influence; now it is no
uncommon thing, as any one knows who
has made the rounds of the town, as the say
ing is, to find in a single afternoon or
evening hundreds of women who are
MORE OR LESS $3.50.
The next day, of course, they have a head
ache, and are not at home to callers Any
one who has closely watched the growth of
the city, its changes and improvements, can
not have failed to note that a number of
prosperous and highly respectable drinking
resorts have within the past five wears
added to them peculiar attachment. It is
known as the Ladies' Room Sometimes
there are several such rooms, which are
fitted up with greater or less degree of ele-
gance. Many are nicely carpeted, have
wall, but for the most part they are simply
a room behind or adjoining the bar, con
tanning plain wooden tables and common
chairs. Here of an afternoon or evening
are always found several couples seated
around the table
DRINKING THEIR BEER
or mixed drinks. Few of the-women ever
drink whisky. They seldom become hilari-
Gus, yet often party of several couples
take a room and have high old time. The
people that frequent these places range in
age from young girls to married women,
with their friends, who are out for lark
If the married lady takes too much she is
quietly put into hanson and sent to her
home. Many have indulgent husbands,
who, when the wife and mother comes home
SLIGHTLY BEFUDDLED,
accept the excuse she offers, ''that she was
over at Mrs. -, and they drank too much
wine" Other husbands, more worldly
minded, perhaps, will not receive such an
excuse, and, of course, a scene follows
Often repeated a GOODNESS ensues between
the formerly happy couple, the wife be-
comes defiant, and may do wrong. The re-
suit is inevitable, and the Divorce Court
winds up the melodrarna,
RUSHING THE GRowLER.
There is another and distinctive phase of
the drinking question, which is vulgarly
known as rushing the GROWER" It's moth
ing more than sending out for pitcher of
beer. Scattered all over town. especially in
the East and West End, are convenient
saloons that do large pitcher business"
as it is known to the trade. Women have a
great deal of spare time on their hands and
pay numerous visits to each other. Some
gentlemen friends call in the afternoon,
and, wishing to do the handsome thing, sug-
gest:
whats the matter with our having some
beerF'
The ladies don't object. It will liven up
the dizziness of the occasion, drive off duh
care and make things more sociable.
So the GROWER is rushed.
This is the social phase of it. But there is
another side to the picture. From drinking
socially the wife, if she is much alone,
forms
TASTE FOR LIQUOR,
and begins by sending the girl out for a
nickers worth, or a bottle, of beer The
servant is rewarded with glass, and, of
course, keeps her own counsel. AT first, if
the wife has no change, it is an easy matter
to arrange with the accommodating grocer
at the corner, where the family have book
to send along the bottle and charge il up as
sugar or -four. 1t is a long time before the
husband catches on, and the wife and SER
want have their drink rationS with the regu-
larity of clock work.
1t was not long since that the wife of a
well-to-do citizen died, yet few opined the
cause of her death. She was quiet, mod
est woman, but childless She formed the
drinking habit, and it was her custom to
send her trusted servant with basket down
a back alley for a dozen bottles of beer
These she drank and went TO bed. Then got
up and drank more. At last she grew to
live upon drink. The result was she passed
away with fatty degeneration of the heart
There is still
ANOTHER SIDE TO THE PICTURE,
and perhaps it is the saddest and most de-
moralizing of all.
who goes for the beer!"
NEARLY always child-a little boy or
girl. The little tads come into the barroom
where coarse men are swearing and drink
ing, quarreling over cards or sitting back
in a dark corner sleeping off n debaueh
The little one stands on tiptoe up against the
iron railing and watches the barkeeper as
he draws the foaming amber fluid"
QUIET JOINTS.
Theirs are scattered all over the city per-
haps 100 or more ice cream saloons and fruit
establishments.
They nearly all have back room
Here it is perfectly respectable for lady
To 70 dlOL6 ana eau her ice cream, or IL she
has been to market, or shopping, and is
tired, to drink her bottle or glass or two of
beer.
They differ in this from the attachments
described under the head Of Ladies' En-
frances" inasnuch as lady can enter and
alone, and no one could accuse her of going
in to take drink The place is not called
a saloon. There are no red lights over the
door There is no fancy bar with colored
decanters and large, elegant mirrors.
Though the liquor sold may exceed the
profits of the fruit and CONNECTIONS, they
are known as
FRUIT STORES
and ice cream parlors, and the liquor sell
ing is simply profitable adjunct. Gener-
ally the freshest and choicest fruits are ex-
posed in front, and candies and cakes, nuts
and cigars, soda water. etc, on shelves along
the sides. The bar is entirely out Of sight.
1t does not stand forth in glaring perspicu-
ity 1t is hid behind partition, and is, at
best, but small, unpretentious affair.
These places are extensively patronized by
women. Good order prevails, and any dis
position to raise a disturbance is quickly
squelched in the bud by the proprietor, who
won't have any fuss and declares there are
ladies present, and this is no barroon."
There are scores of these places that have
regular female patrons, for the most part
married women. who 20 10 drink their
regular five or six daily glasses of beer.
Acquaintance are made here easily. 1t
is generally the courtesy of the place If a